Last weekend, musical inspiration

Played a show last weekend with some guys that I've been jamming with for almost a year. This will hopefully go down as a pretty special show because that was the night that we decided to stop learning and playing covers. We started off only learning covers, despite our collective hatred of the practice, because of various time and skill constraints at our prior shows. The very first show was a salsa party that we started practicing for with one week of preparation time. Have you ever tried to write salsa? It's pretty difficult. Especially for most of us, since we are mostly american. The next shows were very similar in that we started preparing with only a week's notice, and with requirements that we play very dancy music.

I'm not sure what it is that spurred us to make this decision. It may have been that we opened for a bunch of ridiculously fucking good bands who played a ridiculously awesome show. Maybe we were all just sick of playing other people's shit, since for most of us we never played any covers before being with this band. In any case, I'm pretty excited to see what the future holds for us since this group has a lot of talent and a reasonable amount of drive. Perhaps the best part of all of this for me though is it's a way to use my mental energy. Work is still a soul fuck. It's nice to have something challenging to look forward to. It's easy to fall into playing a lot of poker since it's easy to start every day, no need to drive anywhere. I can see myself getting better and better etc. But I'd like to do other things.

Also might start working with some amateur rocketry groups sometime soon. Really hoping that takes off. I can see myself making the drives necessary to do it. Sounds so fucking fun. Man I am yearning for something worthwhile and challenging to keep me busy.